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Charge your iPod and kill a polar bear? - 5/13/2009 3:50:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/13/charge-your-ipod-kill-a-p_n_203006.html

PARIS — Charge your iPod, kill a polar bear? The choice might not be quite that stark, but an energy watchdog is alarmed about the threat to the environment from the soaring electricity needs of gadgets like MP3 players, mobile phones and flat screen TVs. In a report Wednesday, the Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates new electronic gadgets will triple their energy consumption by 2030 to 1,700 terawatt hours, the equivalent of today's home electricity consumption of the United States and Japan combined
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Wow, and then we go for plug-in electric cars? 

Fortunately my motorcycle is "solar powered" ... it just has been stored in oil for centuries....


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RE: Charge your iPod and kill a polar bear? - 5/13/2009 5:33:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Bah, and here I was hoping for the ipod Taser attachment, and shortly thereafter the IWand :P

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RE: Charge your iPod and kill a polar bear? - 5/13/2009 5:38:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh wow, there are some people whom I would love to taser.  I charge my iPod on my computer, if I'm killing a polar bear, well, I'm sorry.  But my iPod is necessary to my mental health.    

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RE: Charge your iPod and kill a polar bear? - 5/13/2009 5:49:04 PM   
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Oh wow, there are some people whom I would love to taser.  I charge my iPod on my computer, if I'm killing a polar bear, well, I'm sorry.  But my iPod is necessary to my mental health.    


AND, bear is tasty!
... No, not YOU, Bear... although, you could be, I'm not sure.


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RE: Charge your iPod and kill a polar bear? - 5/13/2009 5:50:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		We had this discussion, and shouldn't there be a solar charger for iPods like you get solar powered calculators?

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RE: Charge your iPod and kill a polar bear? - 5/13/2009 5:55:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, there are solar chargers available. The problem with them is you can't sync the content with the solar chargers so you need to connect the 'Pods to the computer anyway.

Where the solar charger is handy is if one is on vacation and didn't bring the computer but only the iPod. Otherwise, what's the point?

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RE: Charge your iPod and kill a polar bear? - 5/13/2009 9:49:27 PM   
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But my iPod is necessary to my mental health.    


I lost my iPod.  I can't believe it.  I need to replace it soon or I might have to off myself.


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RE: Charge your iPod and kill a polar bear? - 5/14/2009 7:15:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		My car is already solar powered...as is my motorcycle....STORED solar energy from oil....




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RE: Charge your iPod and kill a polar bear? - 5/14/2009 6:34:24 PM   
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I lost my iPod. I can't believe it. I need to replace it soon or I might have to off myself.


I would be devastated.  Mine goes with me everywhere.  I'm still in the newly addicted stage of love.


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